Closet-seat attachment.



A TTOR/VE Y5 Patented July 19,1910.

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R D MCDONALD CLOSET SEAT ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 3,1907.

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RONALD DONALD MCDONALD, OF DE LAND, FLORIDA.

CLOSET-SEAT ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 19, 1910.

Application filed. July 3, 1907. Serial No. 382,033.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RONALD DONALD Mo- DONALD, a citizen of the United States, residing at De Land, in the county of Volusia and State of Florida, have invented a new and useful Closet-Seat Attachment, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a sanitary attachment for water closet seats and comprises a covered shield or tached to the under side of the seat board of a water closet at the front thereof and project downwardly across the space between the seat and hopper into the hopper to prevent urine, projected horizontally, from passing from below the seat onto the bottom thereof and to the outside of the hopper, running thence to the floor.

The main object therefore is to provide means for retaining in a wholesome sanitary condition the seat and exterior of a water closet hopper and the floor immediately surrounding the same.

To more clearly illustrate the invention as it appears in operative position, attention is directed to the accompanying drawings in which,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a water closet with the attachment applied. Fig. 2 is a similar view with a portion of the front of the hopper broken away and the attachment shown in section. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the seat with the attachment in place thereon. Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the invention detached. Figs. 5, 6 and 7 are detail views of modifications.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the figures of the drawings.

The numeral 1 indicates a water closet hopper of any known form to which is hinged a seat 2 having the usual opening 3 therein closed by a cover l independently hinged to the hopper or seat. Fastened to the under side of the seat at the front near the opening 3 is a curved-shield 5 made of spring or bendable metal, alloy, composition, or any suitable substance naturally inert to the action of water and urine, or which may be made so as by enameling. The shield 5 is made of a thin strip of the desired material straight, or curved flatwise to the applate to be at proximate shape and provided on its upper edge with a suitable number of lugs 6 extending from one side only of the strip, their upper surfaces lying in the same plane as the upper edge of said strip. Each lug has a perforation 7 for a screw or other fastening means for securing the shield close against the under side of the seat in position to enter the hopper when the seat is lowered into operative position. The width of the shield is such that it enters the hopper sufficiently far to prevent any liquid which may strike it, from working its way up on the outer side and over the edge of the hopper. The shield may be placed perpendicular to the seat as in Figs. 1 to l, curved inwardly as in Fig. 5, or inclined either inwardly or outwardly as represented in Figs. 6 and 7 respectively. In any case the lugs 6 will all lie in the same plane on the inner side of the shield.

When the shield is made of metal, lead for instance, it may be cut out of a flat sheet and bent to conform to the outline of the opening 3 in the hopper 1. If made of material less yielding than metal the curvature may be approximated correct and bent to correct shape when applied. The length of the shield will be great enough to extend around to or near the sides of the hopper for preventing urine escaping past the ends of the shield.

With a device of this character it will not be necessary for the seat to fit closely the top of the hopper, but be raised therefrom by rubber cushions or bumpers 8.

It is to be observed that the shield is entirely within the hopper and that no part of it overlies the edge thereof. This is of great importance, for, should the seat fall and there be no bumpers 8, or the bumpers be worn out, the force of the blow on the hopper and the metal shield striking it, would in all probability break the hopper especially if made of earthenware.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed is:

The combination with a privy seat of an arcuate shield having upon its concaved side, lugs whereby the shield may be mounted upon the lower face of the seat to depend therefrom, certain of said lugs being located at the ends of the shield, and another In testimony that I claim the foregoing of said lugs being located between the firstas my own, I have hereto afiixed my signanamed lugs, all of said lugs being extended ture in the presence of two witnesses.

inwardly to the periphery of the opening in RONALD DONALD MCDONALD 5 the seat and belng spaced apart, the shield Witnesses:

being in contact with the seat intermedlate SAML. D. JORDAN,

R. P. HAMLIN.

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